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Osteoporosis and Osteopenia treatment and prostate cancer?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: May 7 11:31am | Replies (22)Comment receiving replies
Sure is good to have a dentist on here to give us the inside information.
My dentist’s office requires that I give them a list of all my medication’s. Did you do that? Did you have a Count of how many total people were on Xgeva and Zometa, Two people had necrosis out of X on Xgeva or Zometa.
Do you recall which drug those two people were taking that caused it.
I know when I fill out the medication list it’s drug, drug, drug so I’m not sure the software has the ability to filter that information If someone wanted details.
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Jeff, our office required full medical histories and lists of drugs. Many times I had no idea what these drugs were since they were so new; so you MUST use your PDR to find out what they do and if they will interact with anything you might be using.
I was constantly learning about new drugs and new diseases. Unfortunately, we did not keep statistical records of what percentage of patients were taking what drug; we were lucky that the software could do accurate billing and insurance filing! Today, the systems are much more sophisticated and robust.
Both patients were on Zometa for metastatic cancer - a woman with breast cancer and a man with cancer of “unknown origin”; baffles me to this day how a pathologist could be unable to identify what organ/gland a cell comes from.
Phil